Up next, after words with author deborah dingell. This week, bob lutz with his book icons and idiots Straight Talk on leadership. The former vice chairman of General Motors discusses the latest amid the best and worst impressions on him during his career in the auto industry. The program runs about an hour. Bob, great to be with you this afternoon. Hope you are doing well. Guest thank you, debbie. I am and hope you are too. Host i am. I enjoyed reading the book this past week. Ive known you a long time and know a number of people in the book you read about. Why did she write this book now . Guest well, it is clearly something i couldnt have written while i was still actively employed by General Motors because some people are there within General Motors or within other Companies Might taken offense. But he was a book i always wanted to write because i worked for a number of very interesting personalities and i felt sometimes skewed personalities, people with a great deal of ability on o
Roger garside who i am happy to say still alive. An absolutely magnificent book that has stood the test of time. Some journalists wrote that looks at the time but i would say his is the one thats hard to be precisely because as you say he went out and he was on the ground and he got the story. He saw things very pragmatically without an ideological lens. He caught a lot of things that other of service miss. Host thats interesting so ideology is or can be the enemy of history. Guest very much so. I am struck when i look back at this period again by how the very ideological people didnt understand what they were seeing. I had a good conversation with conan on makia whom you might remember as the man who wrote a fantastic book about the evils of the Saddam Hussein regime in iraq and he was a very convinced leftist. He is a trotskyite. He describes that his wife is iranian and they were both trotskyists. He described to me how completely bewildering the iranian revolution was to them. If y
Prepared by nature for that existence. That idea preexisting rights of the Scientific Academy of north america but it gets coopted by science. In many ways science becomes one of the key areas for defending race and for defending the injustices of modern slavery. I write about that in the book for a few reasons. One of the good ones is actually thats the path that allows universities to emerge by the 1830s. As independent actors in the political sphere. Its precisely the ability of university and faculty and officers to argue in defense of slavery that creates the space in the public sphere. Host i assume because it is the university that they are the center of learning so therefore what more appropriate place to take place and validate this racist science or raise science youre talking about . Gaska the prestige of the university rises with race and then race creates the prestige of the university so that race ultimately unfettered if you remember the beginning of our conversation we
Tomorrow, donald trump strategist, Paul Manafort will be with us on this show, on this set. Until then, my friends, from us, sayonara. Coming up, hardball with chris matthews. Trump to Reince Priebus, youre fired. Lets play hardball. Good evening, im chris matthews, up in new york. Its a hostile takeover. Donald trump going to war with the Republican Party, someone named Reince Priebus. Over the delegate selection process. He told the hill newspaper it is a disgrace for the party and Reince Priebus should be ashamed of himself because he knows whats going on. Trump who has won the most votes and garnered the most delegates, corrupt and a scan. Here he was on cnn last night. The colorado thing was very, very unfair. I thought louisiana was very
unfair. I won louisiana. I won it easily. The popular vote. Because of all the shenanigans that go on. Those are the rules. Didnt you know those rules. I know the rules very well. I know its stacked against me by the establishment. In response to
Doing business with the escort agency. He says those records will have a direct bearing on the 2016 president ial election. We dont know if its true, but thats what he says. Even if the Supreme Court doesnt take up his request, which it seems about 99 likely they will not take it up, it still may be a matter of time before he releases these records on his own, he is threatened to release the records publicly if the court turns him down. The court isnt actually turning him down. Not yet. Watch this space. That does it for us tonight. We will see you again for tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. I advise you to get out of the building quickly tonight because coming up in the show theres going to be a mini hillary versus bernie debate with howard dean and nina turner. If youre still here, if you see
the first ten seconds of it you wont be able to leave. Youre trying to save my evening. Im trying to save your evening. Youre very kind. I will put the ear plugs i